Email Fraud Alert received from: Suspicious
I recently received an email with this subject line: We have checks ready to send you and I am concerned that it could be an attempt at defrauding me. Let me know in the comments section what you think, please.
The full contents of the suspected fraudulent (phishing / scamming) e-mail appear below:
Hello,
We apologize for contacting you at this time of the day, and we hope that we haven’t interrupted
you in anyway, but we wanted to make sure that you receive this message.
We have checks ready to send you for offering us your honest opinion on various online surveys that
only take a few minutes to complete. So if you’re interested in earning a nice extra income each month
for just giving your opinion on various surveys then press here to begin:
http://www.similarphilosophy.com/8953CF7B0BFB4272A95E3E3580A30F3Fy403z
We bring you fresh opportunities to express your opinions, participate in online focus groups,
try out new products, be heard AND be paid to boot! How would you like to sit in the comfort of your own home,
fill out surveys online, and participate in online focus groups and get a nice big paycheck at the end of the month?
You can participate whenever you’d like, morning, noon, night .. midnight if you’d like .. it doesn’t matter.
Simply log in and select surveys to fill out, get paid for your time.
Work for 30 minutes or three hours, it doesn’t matter…you set your own hours!
Start here:
http://www.similarphilosophy.com/8953CF7B0BFB4272A95E3E3580A30F3Fy404z
We can only accept a few more people, but we will accept you if you’re interested…and we hope you are!
Thank You.
The above email was sent by “NPD Recruitment Team “ from this email address: NPDRecruitmentTeam@similarphilosophy.com
I, Suspicious, have the following thoughts/comments on this suspected fraudulent email message from “NPD Recruitment Team “:
This has the hallmark of a phishing scam but also could be a spam mail to get visitors – anyone have any thoughts?